[plug] [OT]Worlds biggest luddite spends $4Mill on website

[Bernd Felsche]

On Thu, Apr 03, 2003 at 01:43:59PM +0800, Craig Ringer wrote:
> >For 4 million dollars, it SHOULD be HTML compliant.
> 
> For 4 million dollars, it should probably be able to hand out free
> DSL accounts for the purpose of viewing it. Seriously, how /do/
> you spend $4m on a website?

Start by paying $800,000 for "content-management" software.
Then pay $600,000 for hardware. WTF!!!????

They do look like mates' rates, don't they? :-)

> I can understand it for huge corporate websites ie dell, but not
> much else.

Maybe they're setting up an auction site for Blue Paint Runs err... Poles.

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